We are launching a call for submissions for short videos that capture women and girls’ struggles and dreams for a gender-responsive recovery plan for COVID-19.

We need to ensure women and women’s groups have a voice in decision-making around pandemic response. In this process, we need to pay specific attention to the needs and perspectives of women, girls, femme-identified and nonbinary people, women of color and Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and immigrant women in Hawaiʻi.

Submissions will go through an editorial panel and if approved by the panel, HWF may pay an honorarium of $500 for video.

The curated videos will be instrumental in implementing recovery and stimulus actions that include input from the impacted, essential sectors that employ a majority of women and organizations that serve women, girls and people who identify as women, femme and nonbinary people. This process will advance larger, long-term structural changes that improve the outcomes for Hawaiʻi’s women, girls, and expansive people.

The video need to be focused primarily on the needs and perspectives of women, girls, femme-identified and nonbinary people, women of color, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and immigrant women in Hawaiʻi.

The short videos can address any of the following:

How federal COVID-response funds coming to the state should be spent

Value of women’s work

New opportunities for more sustainable economic livelihoods

How the state could reshape and diversify the economy, making Hawaiʻi more resilient to future economic downturns

Feminist women’s leadership

Childcare, education and healthcare

Women’s financial independence

Gender-based violence prevention

The digital gender gap among low and middle-income women and their family in Hawaiʻi

Response and recovery, but also of repair and revival: repair of historic harms and intergenerational trauma playing out as male domination, gender-based violence, economic insecurity, poor health and mass incarceration

Place-based practices and knowledge, and self determination

Any other topics/themes/issue not listed here that you deem important

Requirements & Process

Submissions will go through an editorial panel. If approved by the editorial board, HWF may pay an honorarium of $500 for video

Video should be no longer than 5 minutes

Each video selected will be uploaded to HWF and partners’ social media and will include HWF logo. The curated selection will be part of upcoming engagement/exhibition initiatives organized in collaboration with the Hawaiʻi Commission on the Status of Women and Girls and partnering community organizations